Deliver high availability, performance, and security for tens of billions of page views and over a billion web surfers each month.
Participate in all aspects of the management of our infrastructure.
Maximize the availability and uptime of all services.
Optimize server-side and client-side interactions.
Ensure services are safe and secure through proactive monitoring and enforcement.
Remove friction for Automattic developers in shipping software.

Have maintained large Nginx setups with advanced routing configuration, load balancing, reliable performance and high availability;
Have run very large MySQL/MariaDB deployments while maintaining an unparalleled level of performance, uptime and data integrity;
Have experience running and debugging PHP applications at scale;
Understand the relationship of these services with the lower level systems stacks
filesystems, network, memory management, kernel internals, etc;
Have deep operational and maintenance experience with very large and complex public facing web hosting systems;
Can autonomously architect, prototype, and maintain solutions to different problems and hosting requirements;
Possess extreme attention to detail and strive for unparalleled operational excellence;
Are open and available for a 2-3 week post-COVID travel per year to meet up with your teammates in person.

Senior Systems Engineer

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